Rajesh Saraiya

Rajesh Saraiya (born 1969) is an industrialist and member of DICCI. [1]

Rajesh Saraiya

He is considered as first Dalit billionaire of India.[2]

Rajesh Saraiya is the CEO of Steel Mont Trading.Ltd, headquartered at Dusseldorf (Germany). It deals with steel trading, production, commodities and shipping. It has offices in London, Kyiv, Moscow, Istanbul, Dubai, Mumbai and Tianjin.

Rajesh Saraiya hails from Saraiya Sani village, Sitapur (U.P), grew up in Dehradun and studied Aeronautical science from Kyiv Institute of Civil Aviation, Ukraine

He was given the Pravasi Bharatiya Award in 2012 and the Padma Shri in 2014.

He is now the world's richest from Dalit community

References

Rajesh Saraiya, India's first Dalit billioniare
"Meet India's first Dalit billionaire". NDTV.com. Retrieved 24 May 2020.

Recipients of Padma Shri in Trade & Industry
1950s	Atma Ram (1959)
1960s	Adinath Lahiri (1960) Vithalrao Vikhe Patil (1961) Verghese Kurien (1965) Ebrahim Alkazi (1966) A. Nagappa Chettiar (1967) Ved Rattan Mohan (1967)
1970s	Khailshanker Durlabhji (1971) Udaybhansinhji Natwarsinhji Jethwa (1971) Devi Sahai Jindal (1971) Yelavarthy Nayudamma (1971) Prem Nath Sahni (1971) H. D. Shourie (1971) Mohanmullji Chordia (1972) Waman Dattatreya Patwardhan (1974)
1980s	Jadunath Supakar (1985) Nelly Sethna (1985) Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (1989) Lila Poonawalla (1989)
1990s	B. V. Rao (1990) Vasantrao S. Dempo (1991) Ramesh Gelli (1991) Lalchand Hirachand (1992) K. M. Mammen Mappillai (1992) Meenakshi Sargogi (1992) Harshavardhan Neotia (1999)
2000s	N. R. Narayana Murthy (2000) Kandathil Mammen Philip (2001) Kallam Anji Reddy (2001) Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti (2003) Sharayu Daftary (2004) Shahnaz Husain (2006) Suresh Krishna (2006) Rajinder Gupta (2007) Naina Lal Kidwai (2007) A. Sivasailam (2007) Amit Mitra (2008) R. K. Krishna Kumar (2009) B. R. Shetty (2009)
2010s	T. N. Manoharan (2010) Kapil Mohan (2010) Karsanbhai Patel (2010) B. Ravi Pillai (2010) Deepak Puri (2010) AVS Raju (2010) Venu Srinivasan (2010) Irshad Mirza (2010) Mecca Rafeeque Ahmed (2011) Sat Pal Khattar (2011) Kailasam Raghavendra Rao (2011) Arun Firodia (2012) Priya Paul (2012) Gopinath Pillai (2012) Swati Piramal (2012) Shoji Shiba (2012) Hemendra Prasad Barooah (2013) Milind Kamble (2013) Vandana Luthra (2013) Rajshree Pathy (2013) Kalpana Saroj (2013) Ravi Kumar Narra (2014) Pratap Govindrao Pawar (2014) Rajesh Saraiya (2014) Mallika Srinivasan (2014) T. V. Mohandas Pai (2015) Ajaypal Singh Banga (2016) Keki Hormusji Gharda (2016) Dilip Shanghvi (2016) Mahesh Sharma (2016) Saurabh Srivastava (2016) Rameshwarlal Kabra (2018) Shantanu Narayen (2019)
2020s	Jai Prakash Agarwal (2020) Sanjeev Bikhchandani (2020) Bharat Goenka (2020) Vijay Sankeshwar (2020) Romesh Wadhwani (2020) Prem Watsa (2020) Sridhar Vembu (2021) Prahlad Rai Agarwala (2022) Jagjit Singh Dardi (2022) Muktamani Devi (2022) Ryuko Hira (2022) Rakesh Jhunjhunwala (Posthumous) (2023) Areez Khambatta (Posthumous) (2023) KUMAR MANGALAM BIRLA (2023)

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